Fellowship Program
The SDOH & Place Fellowship Program launched in 2024 to support public health, geography, & health equity leaders learn how to develop a social determinants of health (SDOH) place-based visualization (e.g., asset map, story map, thematic map, or dashboard) based on a human-centered design (HCD) framework and participatory design principles. Program Ambassadors additionally contribute to the SDOH & Place community toolkit's design and development.
2024 Fellow Cohort
Beth Beyer
Executive Director
Beth Beyer has dedicated her career to helping communities thrive. She works to empower students, teachers, and parents through the use of technology to enhance experiential learning and ...
Joseph Braimah
Assistant Professor
Dr. Joseph A. Braimah is a health geographer and an Assistant Professor in the Department of Public Health at St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York. He has an interdisciplinary ...
Peter Chen
Assistant Professor
Dr. Xiang "Peter" Chen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Connecticut. Peter received his Ph.D. in Geography from The Ohio State University ...
Jessica Davis
Postdoctoral Scholar
Jessica A. Davis, PhD, RN, CCRN-K, IBCLC is a postdoctoral scholar in the Division of General Academic Pediatrics at the University of Pittsburgh. She has extensive experience caring for ...
Tyler Gorham
Data Scientist
Tyler is a health and data geek with a calling to use his research to promote health equity and improve health outcomes for all children. Working alongside a wide range of clinical and ...
Amy Kryston
Senior Analyst
Amy Kryston is a public health practitioner and researcher determined to alleviate the systemic marginalization of communities in the United States and globally. In her role with PIH, she assists ...
Latrice Landry
Instructor
Latrice Landry is an instructor specializing in developing systems-based approaches to achieving equitable translation of precision medicine and precision public health at the Perelman School ...
Alex Michels
Graduate Student
Alex Michels is a PhD student studying Spatial Informatics under Dr. Shaowen Wang at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC). He is currently a research assistant at ...
Sarah Nelson
Assistant Professor
Sarah Nelson is an Assistant Professor in health geography at the University of Nebraska at Omaha, with expertise in aging, health care services, and the social determinants of health ...
Kennedy Patterson
Graduate Student
Kennedy Patterson is a Sociology Master's Student within the MAPSS Program at the University of Chicago. She also works as a research assistant within the “UChicago Justice Project” ...
Sonia Saxon
Organizer and Graduate Student
Sonia is an advocate for environmental justice and health equity focused on community engagement to achieve broader systemic changes. Sonia lives in Chicago and works with ...
Sarah Scott
Graduate Student
Sarah E. Scott, MPH (she/her) is a Graduate Student Researcher for the Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. She is currently obtaining her PhD in ...
Madeline Smith-Johnson
Graduate Candidate
Madeline Smith-Johnson is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Sociology at Rice University, where they pilot research projects examining the health and ...
Makiya Thomas
DEI Specialist
Makiya Thomas was born and raised in Decatur, IL. She graduated high school from Eisenhower High School. She later went off to college and received her bachelor's and two master's degrees while attending ...
Wei Tu
Professor
Dr. Tu is a professor of Geography and Geographic Information Science, School of Earth, Environment, and Sustainability and a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Health Logistics & Analytics ...
The SDOH & Place Project's mission is to unravel the application design process essential for developing web applications centered on neighborhood health.
